The Year My Parents Ruined My Life

Kate and her family are getting ready to move from sunny California to snowy Pennsylvania. It is the worst idea her parents have ever had. They flew out to Pennsylvania to look at houses, and every house they looked at was terrible! It was not her home in California. It was no where near her friends house, or walking distance from the beach and gramma was on the other side of the country. 

Her parents found a house, and back to California they went. Her dad stayed behind to start work at his new job, and mom and her sister went back to sell the house. They would stay in California until their house sold. The house sold quickly, and the last few days they stayed at gramma's. Josh her, hot surfer boyfriend, came by to kiss her goodbye, and Megan and Kate came up with a plan for her to move back. The plan was that she would save enough money and buy a one way ticket back to sunny California. She would live with Megan and her family, but that will take a lot of convincing of both of their parents. 

The flight to their new home, was filled with tears. When they arrived in Pennsylvania and to their new home. Dad said it was going to snow tonight, and today was Thanksgiving. The girls stayed at their new home, empty of everything and mom and dad went to find a grocery store that was open. The only one that was open was an Asian Market. So they had stir-fry for Thanksgiving meal. The Douglass family, who was their Realtor, invited them over to eat dessert. They loved all of Mrs. Douglass' cooking. 

The next day the snow had fallen and the moving truck had arrived with all their contents. Slowly the house began to fill, and become a home. The moving truck was all empty and the movers were ready to leave, but the semi was stuck from all the snow and ice. They invited the driver in for dinner, but all of a sudden they heard a loud crash! They all ran outside, to see a few cars wrecked at the corner from the snow and ice. The police had a tow-truck help free the semi, and off they went. 

The next morning, the family got a quick lesson in shoveling, they shoveling so much snow (10 inches to be exact). There was no school today because it was the first day of deer season. They thought that was weird, no school for deer season. The following day was their first day of school, they all got bundled up and off to school they went. 

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Having to read and write has really helped me as a reader. I feel like I can quickly write down what I wrote, and it helps me with my comprehension. There was a book that had a lot of details in it, so I would write down details as I read to help keep everything straight, to limit confusion.